Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing bloc has erased a sizable polling deficit against the opposition, while his Likud party has nearly caught the Yashar party of former military chief Gadi Eisenkot ahead of next month's election.

President Donald Trump's meeting with prominent Haredi Jewish leaders at the White House produced an unexpected moment Thursday.

The Justice Department's former pardon attorney sued the department Thursday, alleging she was fired for refusing to recommend that actor Mel Gibson, who supports President Donald Trump, have his gun rights restored as a political favor.

The Trump administration has awarded a $2.7 million contract to Massachusetts firm American AG Energy to attack the algae still fouling the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, pushing the troubled renovation's tab past $14 million.

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday called for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates to spur the housing market, just days after the central bank's chair suggested rates might have to rise to combat persistently high inflation.

The Justice Department plans to invoke prize law - a nearly forgotten body of wartime maritime rules - to argue that ships and tankers the United States has captured at sea since the start of the Trump administration were lawfully taken, CBS News reported.

German prosecutors are investigating 32 people, most of them Chinese fugitives, who allegedly bought fabricated Jewish family histories to obtain German citizenship under a law meant to restore rights to Nazi victims' heirs.

The Trump administration said Thursday that excavation work will start over the next two weeks on the site where it plans to build a towering, triumphal arch.

Volkswagen's board of directors on Thursday approved a sweeping cost-cutting plan that would cut 50,000 jobs, slim the company's model line by half and end auto production at four German plants. The plan put forward by CEO Oliver Blume to counter low-cost competition in...

Hurricane Lowell remained a powerful Category 4 storm Thursday as forecasters warned Hawaii to closely monitor the cyclone, which could bring dangerous surf, heavy rain, damaging winds, and power failures to parts of the islands over the Labor Day weekend and early next week.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has been working to shore up support among Jewish voters, but he continues to face an uphill battle, The New York Times reported.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sounded the alarm over a new generation of artificial intelligence models he says are becoming "superhuman" in some areas, warning the technology is advancing into unknown territory.

Sports broadcaster and political commentator Stephen A. Smith has ruled out running for president in 2028, saying a campaign would force him off the air and jeopardize the lucrative media career he spent decades building.

U.S. diesel prices hit a new all-time record Thursday, while gasoline prices remained elevated near $4.10 a gallon, adding to the pressure on American consumers and businesses as energy costs rise amid the escalating conflict with Iran.The national average price for diesel...

President Donald Trump said Britain was "on the edge of disaster," voicing concerns in an interview with GB News about the country's high energy costs, net zero policies, and the impact of mass migration.

Several Democrats are distancing themselves from former Vice President Kamala Harris before November's midterms as she ponders a possible 2028 presidential run, according to Politico.

The Pentagon told service members last month to stop calling ongoing U.S. military operations against Iran "Operation Epic Fury," an Air Force email obtained by CBS News in August shows.

Wall Street rallied on Thursday as investors curbed their rate hike bets after U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said he would support holding the Fed funds target rate steady if data shows inflationary pressures are abating.

Nearly half of Americans say they want labor unions to wield more influence, a record high in Gallup polling over the past quarter century, as public approval of organized labor remains near a historic peak.

Three organ procurement organizations and their parent company are being investigated by the Department of Justice over allegations of mismanagement, waste and abuse in the transplant industry, the Washington Examiner reported Thursday.